On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 04:59:39PM -0000, joey@kitenet.net wrote:
> Changes:
> debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
> .
> * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put
> stuff there (and won't until people come up with a general transition
> strategy or decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now
> compresses various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes:
> #40892)
In the case of /usr/share/man, we have already a sane transition. It's
already in use by a number of packages.
Did we come up with a sane transition for /usr/share/info yet?
/usr/share/doc is going to be tougher. The biggest difficulty I've heard
is that a million and one compatibility symlinks is not appealing, and I
agree. And who knows WHAT dpkg will do when /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc
and a package moves from using /usr/doc/package to /usr/share/doc/package
given its track record for symlink troubles.
If someone goes through the trouble of testing all of that and can show
that dpkg does the right thing I think we should have base-files move the
directory and create symlinks right away.
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